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...or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony — it must have love-scenes,...Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. T ate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen...

...ending. I) is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she mti*l shine as a lover too. Tate has put Ins hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the show-men of the gcpue, to draw the mighty beast about more easily. A happy ciMinig ! — as if the living martyrdom...

...retention of the "improvements " in the tragedy, too, could not but give dire offence. "Tate," Lamb says, "put his "hook in the nostrils of this leviathan for Garrick and his followers, the fuglemen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily." The twofold prejudice thus felt...